When installing ubuntu 9.10 karmic koala will grub2 work together with grub legacy

Goh Lip g.lip at gmx.com
Wed Nov 4 05:42:08 UTC 2009


bqz69 wrote:
>>> Strange, that on my laptop grub2 cannot see another grub legacy dist
>>> (8.04), and on my other pc grub2 cannot see another grub2 dist (9.10)
>> $ sudo grub-install
>> $ sudo update-grub
> 
> I tried that, and it did not help.
> 
> I am using ext3
> 

Have you tried using the 'rescue' cd ?

I wrote...
> Note: you've mention you've got the rescue cd, if this is from my 
> earlier message on making iso from grub-mkrescue, yes? then you can 
> easily do the following..
> 
> at sh:grub> prompt, type "ls" (without quote marks)
> this will show all partitions
> type "search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg" and it will show partitions with 
> grub.cfg.
> type " search -f /boot/grub/menu.lst" and it will show partitions with 
> menu.lst
> 
> 
> to boot to grub.cfg partitions, type
> configfile (hd0,x)/boot/grub/grub.cfg
> 
> to boot to menu.lst and windows, type
> set root=(hd0,x)
> chainloader +1
> boot

Does "search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg" give you (hd0,5)? Pls get back with 
the output. It should have this and boot using

configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/grub.cfg

If booted to sda5/6, then do the grub-mkconfig and the grub-install.


Regards,
Goh Lip

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